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WWF Unforgiven Preview (Pick Em) Jeff Jarrett vs Flash Funk WWF European Championship Match: Ahmed Johnson © vs D'Lo Brown The New Blackjacks vs The Legion of Doom (previously unannounced) The Rock vs Ken Shamrock WWF Intercontinental Championship Match: Owen Hart © vs Triple H Boiler Room Brawl: Mankind vs Vader WWF Tag team Championship Match: The New Age Outlaws © vs The Headbangers WWF Championship Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin © vs The Undertaker Tiebreaker: Will Kane make his return at Unforgiven?

WWF Monday Night Raw live from Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa The Undertaker makes his way to the ring and says he saw what Stone Cold had to say on Shotgun. He agrees with Austin that their battle should be 1 on 1, but says he has no control over what Vince McMahon and DX do. This leads to Austin coming down to the ring to confront The Undertaker and he tells Undertaker what he is saying in bullshit and that The Undertaker knows that he cannot beat Austin on his own, which is why he won’t call off his support. Austin then attacks The Undertaker and the 2 brawl until they are separated by WWF officials. A* Val Venis defeats The Brooklyn Brawler with The Money Shot. D- As we come back from commercial break Jim Ross announces that later tonight The Undertaker and Steve Austin would be tag teaming against the Legion of Doom. B Owen Hart is backstage being interviewed about his Intercontinental Title defense this Sunday against Triple H. Owen says Triple H doesn’t have his eye on the ball, he’s been too wrapped up with Stone Cold Steve Austin and not been paying enough attention to Owen Hart and this Sunday that is going to be his undoing. B+ Flash Funk defeats Miguel Perez when Savio Vega attempts to hit a spinning heel kick on Flash Funk, but Funk moves, and he hits Miguel instead. Funk then goes up top and hits the Tumbleweed for the victory. C Ahmed Johnson is in the ring and says he cannot wait until this Sunday, when he can defeat D’Lo Brown and put all the long history between him and the Nation behind him. C+ Faarooq defeats Ahmed Johnson when Kama distracts the ref while D’Lo hits Johnson with a chair as he was setting up the Pearl River Plunge and Faarooq covers Johnson. B- Stone Cold storms into Mr. McMahon’s office and asks him what the hell he is thinking making him team with The Undertaker tonight. McMahon responds that he knew Austin would hate it and that’s all the reason he needed to do it. Austin goes to rush at McMahon, but WWF security is too quick to step in the way and drag Austin out as Vince has a smug smile on his face. B+ The Truth Commission defeat Too Much when Kurrgan pins Brian Christopher with The Claw. D Sunny comes to the ring to plug her appearance in a recent magazine. C The New Age Outlaws make their way to the ring and Road Dogg promises yet another successful title defense at Unforgiven this Sunday, but Billy Gunn is going to beat Mosh right now. B- Billy Gunn and Mosh went to a No Contest when Thrasher and Road Dogg both interfered and the match turned into a brawl where the New Age Outlaws laid out the Headbangers with chairs. B- Jeff Jarrett is in the ring and says he can’t believe the WWF was about to leave him off of the card at Unforgiven this Sunday. What kind of WWF pay per view would it be without Double J? Therefore, he is going to call his own match, he wants a guy that has been red hot in the WWF lately so that Double J can be the one to cool him down. He will be wrestling Flash Funk at Unforgiven. C Mankind defeats Marc Mero with the Mandible Claw. B Post-match Mankind is immediately jumped by Vader. Vader drags Mankind to the corner and hits not 1, not 2, but 3 Vader bombs, leaving Mankind down and out. A Backstage Ken Shamrock is interviewed about his match this Sunday with The Rock, specifically if he expects The Nation to get involved and what he makes of the problems within The Nation. Shamrock says he does not make much of the problems within The Nation and that he fully expects The Rock to get help in their match. However, he does not think the help will make a difference and The Rock will tap out to the ankle lock. B Steve Austin and The Undertaker defeat Legion of Doom when Austin hits the stunner on Hawk. There is clearly tension between Austin and Undertaker, but for the most part they work together well as a team to secure the victory. A Post-match Austin jumps the Undertaker from behind and ends giving him a Stunner and standing over The Undertaker taunting as Raw ends. B Show Grade: A

WWF Shotgun Saturday Night previously taped at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio Shotgun begins with Steve Austin in the ring saying he knows The Undertaker isn’t here tonight, but he has a request for The Deadman anyway. If The Undertaker is a man of his word and isn’t a Vince McMahon lackey then The Undertaker will leave Vince and leave DX out of their meetings and face him 1 on 1 like a man. A The Godwinns defeat Kai En Tai with a Slop Drop. C- A peak into the Nation’s locker room reveals them planning their strategies for D’Lo’s match with Ahmed Johnson and The Rock’s match with Ken Shamrock next Sunday at Unforgiven. The Rock snidely remarks that Farooq’s plans have not been going that well lately, just look at Monday night. Farooq gets in The Rock’s face and asks if there is a problem. Kama and D’Lo step in and calm the situation down while they get back to planning. B- Chainz defeats Mark Henry with the Primetime Slam. D+ Paul Bearer cuts a promo promising the return of Kane is getting closer every day. B Kama defeats Bob Holly with the STF. C- A hype video plays showing the history of the Mankind and Vader feud. B+ Steve Blackman defeated The Sultan with a Pump Kick. C Show Grade: C+

ECW Hardcore TV Taped at the Olympia Ice Center in West Springfield, Massachusetts We start off with a tag team match as The Gangstanators defeat Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon when Kronus pinned Lafon after a powerbomb. D After the match The Dudley Boys come out and brawl with the Gangstanators and it ends with the Dudleys putting both Gangstanators through tables. E A pre-taped promo from Taz apologizes for not being there tonight, but says Sabu, better win to keep that TV Title warm for when it comes back to him. He says Sabu’s fluke reign will be over the next time they are in the ring together. C+ Sabu defeats Al Snow in a very tightly contested matchup to retain the ECW Television Championship. D+ The Franchise Shane Douglas makes his way out to the commentary table for the next match where his Triple Threat Stablemate Chris Candido will take on The Sandman. D+ Chris Candido defeats The Sandman after Shane Douglas steps up on the apron to distract The Sandman allowing Candido to hit the Blonde Bombshell for the win. D- Bam Bam Bigelow comes out and says he has a special challenge for Tommy Dreamer. He says that he wants Tommy to be properly warmed up for their upcoming ECW World Championship match so he would like Tommy to wrestle and opponent of his choosing. Tommy agrees as long as Bam Bam agrees to wrestle someone of Dreamer’s choosing next week, which Bam Bam laughingly agrees to. C+ Tommy Dreamer defeated Yokozuna when he hit Yokozuna with a low blow when he went up for a Banzai Drop and rolled him up for the victory. D. Show Grade: D+

WON Special Edition with Dave Meltzer: -Chavo Guerrero dislocated his shoulder at last night's WCW Saturday Night taping and is expected to miss the next 2 weeks. -Hulk Hogan's last movie, The 3 Ninjas High Noon at Mega Mountain has come out and Hogan is getting strong reviews for his role in the movie. -ECW's Taz won a recent poll for who those in the industry think is the next breakout star in the industry. -Little Guido has left ECW as he has signed a deal to tour Japan with WAR. The split is said to be amicable with the door open for Guido to return in the future. -Rumors have it that The Sandman and Doug Furnas had a fight backstage prior to tonight's ECW taping. It will be interesting to see how this effects the push that it looked like The Sandman was about to get from ECW.

WCW Saturday Night Taped at the IO Young Arena in Dothan, Alabama WCW Saturday Night Starts with a 4-way match in the cruiserweight division. Chavo Guerrero defeated Evan Karagias, Prince Iaukea, and Ultimo Dragon when he pinned Iaukea. C Ric Flair comes to the ring and says Randy Savage was right about one thing Monday. Their long-standing feud is coming to an end. However, it will be the Nature Boy who will be the one standing tall at Spring Stampede. B+ Fit Finlay defeated La Parka with a Tombstone Piledriver. C A video plays recapping everything that has gone un thus far between Curt Hennig and Sting. B+ The Boogie Knights defeated Sonny Siaki and Rick Martel when Disco Inferno pinned Siaki after a Chartbuster. C- Lex Luger, who hadn’t been seen since his match with Hulk Hogan at Uncensored, is backstage and cuts a promo letting us know that tonight he is back, and he will be facing Bret Hart in tonight’s main event. A Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero wrestle to a 15-minute time limit draw. B Lance Storm comes to the ring and brags again about having gotten the better of Chris Jericho on Nitro. Storm says tonight he is going to use Riggs to show Jericho what he can expect at Spring Stampede. D Lance Storm defeats Riggs with the Canadian Mapleleaf E A video is played showing the dissension between The Steiner Brothers. C+ Mongo McMichael defeats Hugh Morrus with the Mongo Spike. D DDP is getting ready to head to the ring for his match but is jumped by Sid Vicious. DDP fights back and WCW security separates the two. Eric Bischoff walks in and tell security to throw Sid out of the building and tells DDP to get to the ring. A DDP defeats Scott Norton with the Diamond Cutter. B- A taped interview with Chris Jericho is shown where he says Lance Storm no more jumping him from behind and the hiding and having matches on WCW Saturday Night. Jericho went to Eric Bischoff and guaranteed both men would have matches on Nitro this week. B- Bret Hart defeats Lex Luger by disqualification when Raven ran in and attacked him as he was setting up the Sharpshooter. B Raven and The Flock beatdown Bret Hart but out come the rest of the Hart Foundation and the 3 of them clear out The Flock and stand tall as we go off the air. C Show Grade: C

WON Tuesday Night Wars reports with Dave Meltzer: -WCW wins this week's ratings war with Nitro drawing a 17.44 rating to Raw's 13.91. -Hollywood Hogan has landed a role in an action movie and will be taking time off from WCW for filming in 3 months. -Sean Morley has finished up his other commitments and has reported to the WWF to begin getting ready for his debut.

WCW Monday Nitro Live from The Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan Nitro begins with Curt Hennig in the ring calling Eric Bischoff to discuss what happened last week with Sting. Hennig says between the bat attack and Sting pointing at him afterwards that Sting accepted his challenge and he wants to know, is he getting Sting at Spring Stampede? Bischoff says he will indeed wrestle Sting at Spring Stampede, but he doesn’t have to wait until then to get his hands on Sting. In fact, tonight Curt Hennig and Hollywood Hogan will take on Sting and The Giant. A Kidman defeats Psychosis with the 7 Year Itch in the Cruiserweight Tournament Final to become #1 Contender for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. Following last week’s action Lodi was banned from ringside before the match started so that the tournament could have a true winner. C+ Backstage Hollywood Hogan protests having to take part in the tag team match tonight. Bischoff says not only will he be taking part in the tag team match tonight; he will face The Giant at Spring Stampede before walking out on a stunned Hogan. B+ The Hart Foundation (Bulldog and Neidhart) defeated Glacier and Ernest Miller when Bulldog hit the running powerslam on Miller. C We cut to the backstage area where Diamond Dallas Page as just jumped Sid Vicious. Page goes to grab a trash can but turns around right into a big boot from Sid. WCW officials pull Sid off of Page but forget to grab Page who gets licks on Sid, who then breaks free and the 2 are exchanging punches. Finally, more officials pour in and are able to separate the two. A Chris Jericho defeats Dave Taylor with the Liontamer to retain the WCW Television Championship. B After the match Jericho is jumped from behind by Lance Storm. Storm locks Jericho in the Canadian Mapleleaf until WCW officials pull him off. C Raven is surrounded by the Flock in his dressing room and talking about Spring Stampede. Raven says Spring Stampede will be a banner day for the Flock. Kidman is going to become Cruiserweight Champion and he is going to become United States Champion. He then goes on to talk about Bret Hart. He says Bret Hart may be great, that best there is was and ever will be thing might even be true, but one thing he doesn’t have is Raven’s smarts. Bret Hart is off his game because Raven has been playing mind games with Bret, and that will be Brett’s undoing. Quote the Raven, Nevermore. A The Outsiders defeated The Steiner Brothers. Once again miscommunication lead to a loss for the Steiners as they had Scott Hall set up for the Steinerizer, but Nash pushed Rick off the top rope and into the back of Scott’s knee. Scott then walked out on Rick, leaving him as easy pickings for a Jackknife Powerbomb and the pinfall from Nash. B- Backstage Harlem Heat who had been watching on the monitors are asked about their impression of the match. They respond that they are not impressed at all as the Steiners had the match won until Scott walked out on Rick. The Outsiders won’t be so lucky at Spring Stampede as Booker and Stevie Ray are on the same page now more than ever and are ready to take out The Outsiders. A Goldberg squashed Mortis with the Jackhammer. B- Randy Savage is interviewed about his match with Ric Flair at Spring Stampede. He says his history with Ric Flair is long and well documented, but this will be the final chapter. Ric Flair, The 4 Horsemen, and soon WCW will all fall to the Macho Man. OOOOOHHHHH YEEEEEAAAAAA. B+ Saturn defeated Chris Benoit with the Death Valley Driver. B Bret Hart gives in interview about Raven. He says he’s listened to all of the crap that Raven has been saying for the past couple of weeks, but at the end of the day he is the excellence of execution and Raven and all of his talk are going to find that out the hard way at Spring Stampede. B+ Curt Hennig and Hollywood Hogan defeated Sting and The Giant when Brian Adams interfered and hit Sting with the Hart Punch allowing Hennig to hit the Hennig-Plex for the victory. B+ Post-match more members of the NWO come out and they spray paint NOW on Sting and The Giant’s backs until Nitro goes off the air. B- Show Grade: B+

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Raw begins and the glass shatters and Stone Cold makes his way to the ring in a very foul mood. Austin begins by saying despite McMahon’s best efforts he retained the WWF Championship last week on Raw. He then moved on to The Undertaker. He said he knew The Undertaker wanted that WWF Championship, but he never thought The Undertaker would stoop so low as to become Vince’s lacky to do so. This immediately brings out The Undertaker to the stage who says that he is nobody’s lacky. He did what he did because he was told he would get a shot at Austin’s Championship at Unforgiven if he did. Austin says why wait for Unforgiven, he can open a can of whoop as on The Undertaker right now. Undertaker starts walking to the ring but is cut off by Mr. McMahon’s music. Mr. McMahon says to stop because The Undertaker and Austin will not be wrestling each other tonight. In fact, tonight Austin would be wrestling Triple H and that The Undertaker would be ringside as the timekeeper for the match. A* Flash Funk defeated Ahmed Johnson. As Ahmed was setting up the Pearl River Plunge, D’Lo started making his way to the ring and Johnson released the setup to jaw with D’Lo. D’Lo turns around and heads to the back, but that was all Flash Funk needed to hit a big spinning heel kick and the Tumbleweed for the victory. C Mankind is in the Boiler Room and is cutting a promo about Vader. Mankind says No Disqualifications and No Count Outs is just fine with him, in fact that’s Mankind’s middle name. In fact this boiler room looks pretty good, why not make it a boiler room brawl? A Too Much defeat Savio Vega and Miguel Perez of Los Baricuas D+ Backstage The Headbangers are in Mr. McMahon’s office and point out the winning streak they have been on, as well as the fact they are the only team The NAO have yet to beat, and ask for a title shot at Unforgiven. Mr. McMahon says they can have their title shot, if they beat The New Age Outlaws tonight, and to get to the ring because that match will begin right now. C- The Headbangers defeat The New Age Outlaws. The Headbangers target the injured ribs of Road Dogg all match. C+ Backstage Austin confronts Triple H and asks him how it feels to be Mr. McMahon’s latest pawn in his game with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Triple H says he is no pawn, and after he beats Austin tonight, he will beat Owen Hart for the Intercontinental title at Unforgiven and it will only be a matter of time before he beats Austin to become WWF Champion. Austin then punches Triple H, but Chyna quickly gets involved and the 2 play the numbers game on Austin until they are separated. A* Owen Hart defeats The Rock by disqualification to retain the Intercontinental Championship when Farooq’s interference was seen by the referee. After the match The Rock and Farooq argued as The Rock was upset as he had told Farooq not to interfere. B Jeff Jarrett defeats Ken Shamrock when Kama distracted the ref while The Rock hit a Rock Bottom on Shamrock allowing Jarrett to get the pinfall. B- Vader is interviewed and quickly accepts Mankind’s challenge before going to the ring for his match. B- Vader defeats Marc Mero with the Vaderbomb. B Ahmed Johnson walks into Ken Shamrock’s locker room and says he can’t help but notice that they have both been having problems with The Nation lately and he thinks if they watched each other’s backs that it may help solve that problem. Shamrock says next week he wants to try that out in a tag team match against D’Lo and The Rock. B Stone Cold and Triple H fight to a double count out. Both men play very loose with the rules from the opening bell. Towards the end of the match Austin dives out of the ring and attacks The Undertaker. Triple H follows and the 2 brawl on the outside while the ref counts them out. B- Post match The Undertaker, Triple H, and Chyna triple team Austin until Raw goes off the air. A Show Grade: B

Shotgun Saturday Night: Previously Taped at the Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kansas The New Blackjacks defeat the Truth Commission when Blackjack Windham pinned Recon after a flying lariat. D+ A video recap of last Monday’s WWF title match as well as The Undertaker’s post-match attack on Steve Austin is shown. B+ Steve Blackman defeats The Brooklyn Brawler with the Pump Kick. C- The Nation is in back talking about Farooq’s upcoming match when Ken Shamrock walks by. The Rock starts hurling insults Shamrock’s way and Shamrock turns around and asks The Rock if he was talking about him. The Rock throws some more insults and Shamrock challenges him to a match later tonight. The Rock says he can’t because he has an Intercontinental Title Match Monday Night on Raw. Shamrock then sizes up Kama and tells him to meet him in the ring so The Rock can see what he has coming to him. B+ Farooq defeats Bart Gunn with The Dominator. C+ Paul Bearer comes out to the ring to talk about Wrestlemania. He says while The Undertaker may have put Kane in a casket it is not the last time he will see Kane. Kane will return and get revenge on his brother. B Ken Shamrock defeats Kama Mustafa with the Ankle Lock. B- After the match The Rock, D’Lo and Kama jump Shamrock and beat him down as the program goes off the air. B Show Grade: C+

ECW Hardcore TV: Taped at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York Taz makes his way to the ring and immediately calls out Sabu. Taz says Sabu got lucky that Taz had an off night and there is no way that Sabu could beat him again. He is exercising his rematch clause and will face Sabu at Barely Legal. Sabu then begins making his way to the ring for his TV Title defense as security escorts Taz to the back. Taz mouths off to Sabu as Sabu just stares at Taz. B- Sabu defeats Spike Dudley with a Triple Jump Moonsault to retain the ECW Television Title. C Tommy Dreamer is backstage and cuts a promo about how being the ECW World Champion is his dream and he is willing to die to achieve that dream. C Justin Credible defeated Chris Chetti with a Superkick. D The Dudley Boyz are in the ring and Buh Buh says that they are the best tag team in the world and to prove it they are issuing an open challenge for Barely Legal. The Gangstanators hit the ring and immediately brawl with The Dudley Boyz until security is able to separate the 2 teams. C- A pre-taped promo shows Rob Van Dam and Bill Alfonso talking about Van Dam’s win in the Best of 5 series with Jerry Lynn. RVD says the Whole F’N Show is now in the ECW World Championship picture and it’s only a matter of time until the title is around his waist. C+ Bam Bam Bigelow and Shane Douglas defeated Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman when Bam Bam pinned The Sandman following a Top Rope Headbutt. C Show Grade: C+

WCW Saturday Night: Taped at Alico Arena in Ft. Meyers, Florida. The show starts out with Cruiserweight action as Rey Mysterio beats Prince Iaukea and Evan Karagias. C A pre-recorded interview with Sid Vicious plays where he says Diamond Dallas Page made the biggest mistake of his life attacking Sid on Nitro last week. Sid says before beating up DDP was fun, but now it’s personal and DDP will see why Sid is the master and ruler of the world. B+ The Faces of Fear defeated Riggs and Hammer from The Flock when Hammer tapped out to the Tongan Deathgrip. C+ Lance Storm comes down to the ring for his match with Sonny Siaki, but grabs a microphone first. Storm explains that he didn’t shake Jericho’s hand because him and Jericho were never friends. Teaming with Jericho when they first came up was a means to an end. He doesn’t need Jericho anymore and he is going to make Jericho tapout and take Jericho’s TV Title to prove it. D+ Lance Storm submits Sonny Siaki with a Canadian Maple Leaf. E- A promo package airs where Harlem Heat discusses not being afraid of The Outsiders and they’ll show The Outsiders they are not paper champions. B- Fit Finlay defeated Dean Malenko in a hard-hitting match with a tombstone. B- Bret Hart is backstage with the Hart Foundation talking about Raven. Raven will never be the United States Champion because Raven can never beat him one on one. Not that Bret has to worry about that because him and the Bulldog are going to beat Raven and Saturn tonight. B+ Cruiserweight Champion Juventud Guerrera defeats Lenny Lane in a nontitle match with a 450 splash. C A prerecorded promo from The Giant is played where he tells Hollywood Hogan that he can keep having his NWO cronies jump him, but eventually The Giant is going to get his hands on him and he is going to bring Hogan to his knees. B- Wrath defeats Chris Benoit with the Meltdown. C+ Raven is backstage going over plans for tonight’s main event with the rest of the Flock, but quickly kicks the cameras out of their locker room. B Sid Vicious makes quick work of Hugh Morrus with a Powerbomb. C- Post-Match DDP runs from the crowd and jumps Sid from behind. DDP sets up the Diamond Cutter, but Sid pulls out at the last minute and slides out of the ring. A Raven and Saturn defeated Bret Hart and The British Bulldog. Hammer went to slide Raven a chair but was cutoff by Jim Neidhart. Neidhart chases Hammer to the back. Meanwhile in the ring Hart locks Raven in the Sharpshooter but Lodi is on the apron distracting the referee, while Kidman runs in and dropkicks Hart off of Raven. Bulldog goes to chase Kidman but is cutoff by Saturn. Raven then plants Hart with the Evenflow for the pinfall. Raven and Saturn go up the ramp and pose as WCW Saturday Night goes off the air. B Show Grade: C

WON Tuesday Night Wars reports with Dave Meltzer: -Road Dogg suffered fractured ribs in the New Age Outlaws match with Kai En Tai last night, but is not expected to miss any time. -Steven Regal broke his pelvis in last night's match with Chris Jericho. The injury caused the match to go shorter than originally planned. Regal is expected to be out of action for 2 months. -The WWF announces the signing of CMLL wrestler Sean Morley. Morley will finish up his CMLL commitments this week and is expected to debut soon. -Nitro has won the ratings war this week with a 16.95 rating. Raw received a 13.52 rating.

WCW Nitro live from Coliseo Héctor Solá Bezares in Caguas Puerto Rico (This was a complete ****up on my part not paying attention to where the card was booked and the show's grades were hurt as a result of it.) Nitro begins with The Outsiders in the ring. They make fun of the problems the Steiner Brothers have been having before turning their attention to Harlem Heat. The Outsiders run down Harlem Heat calling them a B level tag team that only got the belts because The Faces of Fear were paper champions and The Steiners lost their heads. Hall and Nash promise at Spring Stampede there will be new Tag Team Champions. C- Psychosis defeats La Parka in a cruiserweight tournament match. E- Chris Jericho makes his way to the ring for his TV Title defense. He talks about Lance Storm and how Storm threw away any chance of being something in WCW when he refused to shake Jericho’s hand because now Jericho is going to bury him. E+ Jericho defeats Steven Regal to retain the Television Title. B- Scott Steiner comes to the ring and asks that his brother Rick come out to join him. Rick comes out and the Steiners attempt to air out their differences. Scott puts his hand out and Rick shakes it and the Steiners walk off together. E Kidman defeats Chavo Guerrero in a cruiserweight tournament match with an assist from Lodi who jumped on the apron and distracted Chavo allowing Kidman to roll him up. C+ Hollywood Hogan cuts a promo on how The Giant was given a tremendous opportunity to take his place at Hogan’s side in the NWO, but was too stupid to take it and suffered the consequences. The Giant comes out to confront Hogan, but is jumped from behind and beaten down by Bagwell, Norton, and Vincent before he can get to the ring. C- As Goldberg makes his way to the ring Tony Schiavone announces that later tonight Ric Flair and Mongo McMichael of the 4 Horseman will take on Randy Savage and Brian Adams of the NWO. C+ Goldberg squashes Rick Martel. C- DDP is backstage, his back is heavily wrapped and says everything that happened at Uncensored between him and Sid Vicious has turned him into a new DDP. That he will not rest until he has put Sid Vicious on the shelf for all the attacks and all of the beat downs. D- Vicious and Delicious defeat The Boogie Knights in Tag Team Action. C Curt Hennig calls out Sting again, but once again gets no answer. Hennig goes on to call Sting a coward and to come face him. Once again there is no sign of Sting. D- Eddie Guerrero wins a competitive match with Ray Traylor with a frog splash. C+ Raven talks about Bret Hart. Raven says he talked to WCW management and on WCW Saturday Night this weekend he and Saturn will take on Bret Hart and The British Bulldog and if he or Saturn wins, he gets a US Title shot at Spring Stampede. At Spring Stampede he will become the new United States Champion because he is in Bret Hart’s mind and it is his destiny to be the United States Champion. Quote the Raven, Nevermore. D- Ric Flair and Mongo McMichael defeat Randy Savage and Brian Adams by DQ when Curt Hennig interfered and attacked Flair. C+ Post-match the NWO continue their beatdown when Sting comes down from the rafters with his baseball bat and cleans house. He stands over a down Hennig points the bat at him and nods his head as Nitro goes off the air. B Show Grade: B-

Raw is War live from the Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan Kansas Raw begins with Vince McMahon in the ring surrounded by security. He runs down Steve Austin. Austin comes out to the stage and says now that he is WWF Champion, he only has 1 thing left to do and that is make Vince McMahon’s life a living hell. Vince then books a rematch with Michaels for later tonight and says that he is willing to make a deal with the devil himself if it means getting the title off of Austin. A* The New Age Outlaws quickly squash Kai En Tai. C- NAO after squashing Kai En Tai are in full on self-promotion mode. Road Dogg says they injured Henry Godwinn and sent the Legion of Doom to the retirement home last night and no longer have competition here in the WWF. This brings out The Headbangers. Thrasher says there is one tag team in the WWF the New Age Outlaws have yet to beat and that is The Headbangers. A back and forth ends with a brawl in the ring where the teams have to be separated by WWF officials. C Flash Funk defeats Aguila in a high flying match. C- Backstage Farooq apologizes to The Rock and promises to help him regain his Intercontinental Title next week on Raw. The Rock says he appreciates the apology but isn’t sure he wants the help. Farooq says that’s up to The Rock, but the offer still stands. A Jeff Jarrett defeats Bob Holly with a Figure 4. C+ Backstage Ahmed Johnson is interviewed and is pumped up about being attacked by the Nation last night. He says if D’Lo or Kama want some he is easy to find, and they can take care of it face to face like men. C+ D’Lo Brown defeats Bart Gunn by DQ. When D'Lo went up top for the Low Down Ahmed Johnson came running out and pushed him off the top rope into the barricade outside the ring. Ahmed then beat on D'Lo until the Nation came out, but Ahmed escaped through the crowd before they could touch him. C- Owen Hart cuts a promo on how it feels like Intercontinental Title is back home. Whether it’s The Rock next week, or Triple H at Unforgiven, nobody is taking the IC Title away from its home. B+ The Legion of Doom defeated Skull and 8-Ball of the DOA in a hard hitting tag team match. C+ Backstage Vince McMahon is with DX trying to come up with a game plan for tonight’s match between Michaels and Austin. McMahon states that for the match he wants Triple H on commentary and Chyna as the special guest timekeeper. A* Shamrock defeats The Sultan with the Ankle Lock. B- Vader is backstage and says that Mankind may have beaten him last night, but that’s only because there were too many rules in their match that saved Mankind. He wants a match with no disqualifications, no count outs, no bullshit at Unforgiven to settle this once and for all. B- Austin defeats Shawn Michaels following a stunner. Triple H and Chyna both interfered, but could not keep Austin down for the 3 count. B Suddenly the lights go out and when they come back on The Undertaker is behind Austin. Undertaker attacks Austin and plants him with a chokeslam. Mr. McMahon starts yelling for the Tombstone and the Undertaker obliges. Raw goes off the air with The Undertaker standing over Steve Austin and Mr. McMahon jawing at Austin’s laid out body. A- Show grade: B

ECW: This past weekend also had Living Dangerously take place. ECW World Championship: Bam Bam Bigelow is the current champion having defeated Shane Douglas for the belt at Guilty as Charged in January. Bigelow then won the rematch with Douglas at Cyberslam in February. After the match Bigelow was attacked by the debuting Yokozuna. Yokozuna made is in ring debut 2 weeks later teaming with RVD to defeat Bigelow and Jerry Lynn. Bigelow, however, retained the title at Living Dangerously. Tommy Dreamer is now the number 1 contender for the ECW World title. ECW Television Championship: Sabu unseated Taz for the ECW Television Championship at Living Dangerously. During Taz's reign Taz was a fighting champion defending the belt every week against all comers. Taz and Sabu vs came head to head on an episode of Hardore TV when Taz defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the title, and Sabu and Taz nearly came to blows before being seperated by security. Taz taunted Sabu for the coming weeks and Sabu would try to respond security would keep them apart. Finally they met in the ring and Sabu won, but Taz has sworn this is not over. ECW World Tag Team Championship: The Dudley Boyz won the championships from the FBI at December to Dismember and defeated the FBI again at Guilty as Charged. Danny Doring and Roadkill became unlikely number 1 contenders for the titles but came up short in 2 attempts for the belts at Cyberslam and Living Dangerously. They did however earn the champions' respect in the two hard fought battles. RVD vs Jerry Lynn: RVD and Jerry Lynn had a feud based on an argument over who the best high flyer in ECW is. RVD ended up winning a best of 5 series 3-2 with the final match happening at Living Dangerously. Unavailable Wrestlers: Both members of Public Enemy are in rehab (paid for by WCW) and will be back in 4 months

WCW: Cruiserweight Championship: Juventud Guerrera is the current champion having defeated Dean Malenko for the title at Superbrawl in February. Juventud then won a steel cage match at Uncensored against Rey Mysterio and Ultimo Dragon. Mysterio had earned the title shot by defeating Juventud on an episode of Nitro in a non-title match. Dragon got into the match by beating Rey on another episode of Nitro. Psychosis, Kidman, La Parka, and Chavo Guerrero will begin a 4 man tournament for the next title shot on the next Nitro. TV Championship: Chris Jericho defeated Perry Saturn for the title at Souled Out in January. Jericho's former partner Lance Storm debuted at Superbrawl in February and attacked Jericho after a successful defense against Disco Inferno. The 2 exchanged insults and attacks on Nitro the following weeks leading to Jericho beating storm at Uncensored with a quick roll up. Jericho offered a handshake post match to reconcile their friendship, but was once again attacked by Storm. The following night on Nitro, Storm challenged Jericho to a submission match at Spring Stampede which Jericho accepted. Tag Team Championship: Harlem Heat are the champions having defeated The Faces of Fear for the belts at Superbrawl. The Faces of Fear had a short reign with the belt having taken the belts from the Steiner Brothers in January (more on that later). Harlem Heat defended the belts against the Steiners at Uncensored winning after a miscommunication by the Steiner Brothers. The following night on Nitro Harlem Heat were called out by The Outsiders and Harlem Heat accepted a match at Spring Stampede. United States Championship: Bret Hart reformed the Hart Foundation with British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart upon debuting in WCW and immediately set his attention on Curt Hennig's United States Title. Hennig defeated Hart to retain the title at Starrcade in December and against Bulldog on a January episode of Nitro before losing the belt to Hart at Superbrawl. Hennig got his rematch in a triple threat match also including Chris Benoit which Hart won when Benoit tapped out to the Sharpshooter. The Hart Foundation then became targets of Raven's Flock as Raven set his sites on the United States Championship. The Hart Foundation won 6 man tags against 3 different pairings of various Flock members before losing a 6 man street fight to Raven, Saturn, and Sick Boy at Uncensored when Saturn pinned Neidhart earning him a United States Title match the next night on Nitro. In a hard fought match Bret was able to beat Saturn, but once again The Flock swarmed the ring and attacked Bret after the match before being ran off by the rest of the Hart Foundation. WCW World Championship: Hogan defeated Sting at Starrcade to retain the title after heavy interference from Vincent and Kevin Nash. The next night on Nitro Sting was given a rematch with the stipulation that if any member of the NWO interfered, Sting would win the title. Sting forced Hogan to submit to the Scorpion Deathlock to become the new champion. Hogan's rematch at Souled Out ended when more NWO interference backfired and Hogan won the match by countout when Sting got laid out by a Kevin Nash powerbomb on the outside. Sting then entered a feud with Nash. Sting beat Nash and DDP in a triple threat match at Super Brawl when he pinned DDP after a Scorpion Deathdrop. Nash, upset that he didn't lose the match, attacked Sting after the match. At Uncensored Sting retained the title beating Kevin Nash in a steel cage match. However, the NWO was not finished with Sting as the next night on Nitro Curt Hennig challenged Sting. Sting was not at Nitro and has yet to answer the call out. Sid vs DDP Nash's attack on Sting was not the only attack to happen following that Triple Threat Match at Super Brawl. Sid Vicious grabbed a prone DDP and powerbombed him through the announcers table. When asked about it the next night on Nitro, Sid said he did it was because he is the master and ruler of the world and he does whatever he wants. This has lead to a number of confrontations, attacks, and tag team matches involving the two. DDP defeated Sid at Uncensored when an unhinged Sid lost it mid match and hit DDP with a steal chair before powerbombing DDP onto the chair. The next night on Nitro DDP was not scheduled to be there but came out of the crowd and attacked Sid as he was going to the ring to team with the Outsiders against the Steiner Brothers and Lex Luger. Sid ended up having to be replaced by Brian Adams. While not an official NWO member, Sid has had a loose association with the NWO teaming with various NWO members in tag matches. Savage vs Flair: Flair was jumped by various NWO members including Savage following a match with Hollywood Hogan in January on Nitro. The next week on Nitro Flair singled out his old rival Savage as crossing the line in the attack. Flair reformed the 4 Horsemen with Mango, Benoit, and Malenko to help his feud with Savage. The 2 have faced off in promos and tag team matches with various members of their factions, but have yet to have a singles match. Hogan vs The Giant Following a win over Scott Norton last week on Nitro, Hogan offered The Giant his spot back in the NWO. The Giant instead chokeslammed Hogan before being jumped by Norton, Bagwell, Brian Adams, and Vincent. The Steiner Brothers: There have been signs of problems with the Steiner Brothers. At Sold Out they lost the Tag Team titles after Rick mistakenly decked Scott with a Steinerline. The next night on Nitro they lost their rematch when Scott mistakenly decked Rick with a Steinerline. Postmatch Rick accused Scott of doing it on purpose, but the 2 quickly made up. The Steiners then went on a winning streak earning themselves a shot at new tag team champions Harlem Heat at Uncensored. However, another miscommunication cost the Steiners the match as Scott accidentally hit Rick with a chair meant for Booker T allowing, Booker to pin Rick. Another argument after the match saw an angry Rick walk out on Scott. The following night on Nitro they lost a 6 man tag match with Lex Luger against The Outsiders and Brian Adams when an argument about getting a tag from Luger caused the Steiners to argue amongst each other and allowed Luger to be pinned by Scott Hall. Post match the Steiners once again argued before both leaving separately. Unavailable Talent: Louie Spicolli will be in rehab for 2 months Rick Rude is out for over a year with a severe back injury Ed Leslie is out 42 more days, with an undisclosed injury

<p>WWF:</p><p> </p><p> Last night was Wrestlemania. Here are some of the big stories coming out of it. </p><p> </p><p> WWF Championship:</p><p> Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship last night. Austin had won the Royal Rumble in January and then defended his title shot at Wrestlemania at No Way Out in a steel cage match against Vince McMahon. Austin comes out of Wrestlemania the champion, but Mr. McMahon has promised the Rattlesnake's reign will be short lived. </p><p> </p><p> Intercontinental Championship:</p><p> After a lengthy feud with the Nation of Domination Owen Hart defeated The Rock for the Intercontinental Title at Wrestlemania following botched interference from The Nation's leader Faarooq. Triple H defeated Ken Shamrock to become number 1 contender for the IC belt and called out the winner of the Owen Hart/Rock match. </p><p> </p><p> European Championship:</p><p> Ahmed Johnson won the European Title from Triple H in December at In Your House following interference from Stone Cold Steve Austin. Johnson has since gone on to retain the title against Marc Mero, Jeff Jarrett, and HHH. Following his defense against Marc Mero last night Johnson was jumped by Nation of Domination members Kama and D'Lo. Can the Pearl River Powerhouse overcome the numbers game of the Nation? </p><p> </p><p> Tag Team Championship:</p><p> Champions the New Age Outlaws had an ongoing feud with The Godwinns and The Legion of Doom. Multiple defenses culminated in a 3 way match between the 3 teams last night where The Outlaws once again retained their titles. Who is next to challenge the hottest team in wrestling? </p><p> </p><p> The Undertaker vs Kane</p><p> This feud culminated in a casket match at Wrestlemania in which The Undertaker finally got his brother into the casket after 4 tombstone piledrivers. Having defeated his brother what is next for the Deadman?</p><p> </p><p> Mankind vs Vader</p><p> Mankind and Vader have been feuding since Mankind eliminated Vader at the Royal Rumble. Vader defeated Mankind at No Way Out and Mankind won the rematch at Wrestlemania. These 2 both want to settle their feud once and for all.</p><p> </p><p> Unavailable talent:</p><p> Goldust is in rehab for the next 3 months</p><p> Henry Godwinn sprained his ankle at Wrestlemania and will miss this week's tv tapings</p><p> Recon has 1 more week left to recover from a shoulder injury</p><p> Sean Waltman signed with the WWF but as yet to debut as he is out another 56 days with a neck injury</p><p> The Patriot will be out for more than a year with a torn acl</p>

I have been running a save where I have been booking WWF, WCW, and ECW using the Montreal Aftermath mod. I just finished Wrestlemania and it's now Raw the night after I will update on what I have done with the 3 companies before starting this dynasty. We are at Week 1 April 1998. This Month's PPV Schedule ECW Barely Legal: Saturday Week 4, April WCW Spring Stampede: Sunday Week 3, April WWF Unforgiven: Sunday Week 3, April

I think the MMA Hall of Fame needs to be redone for this mod. 1) Can I ask why Brock Lesnar is inducted into the MMA HOF in this mod? Is 5-3 with 1 NO contest really a HOF career? 2) GSP, a guy I and many others consider the GOAT is not in the HOF or listed as a future inductee in this mod. 3) Stephan Bonnar is not an mma HOF guy either. 4) Anderson Silva is not listed as a future inductee either. Another guy in some people's GOAT contention. 5) Jose Aldo also deserves future inductee. 6) BJ Penn probably deserves future inductee status as well. 7) If Sakuraba and Rampage are in, Wanderlei has to be as well. Other inclusions and exclusions are debatable, but those 7 I found pretty egregious

I have never really used it, but I'm playing as Bellator and need to get my younger guys to draw better in a quick fashion. Is hype a good way to do this? How do you guys use the hype feature?

So I have I guess an update on this. Shawn did not do any trouble starting the following week. It's now March and even though about 1/3 of the locker room was turned against Owen his respect rating went up.

I did try to settle Owen and Shawn and it had no effect

Yes, it is Austin who will be taking the title from him. Can I just not use him or do I have to actually send him home?